RE: [OT] Happy Camper!

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LOL! That's too easy, did it at my Dads with a 14" TV sat on the roof!
:)
-----Original Message-----
From: Des Gibbons [mailto:des@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 19 September 2003 23:02
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Happy Camper!




> -----Original Message-----
> From: ben addison [mailto:ben@xxxxxxx]
>
> I have set a few up now manually over here in the UK and italy. The
> angle of the dish in the uk should be between 21-25. You are best
trying
> with it pointing south and swing it slowly towards the east. If you
> start from the east you end up picking up the wrong sat and it locks
on
> to that, and you have to reset the decoder.
>

The angle over here is between 19 and 20. The biggest problem I had was
trying to do it with someone else watching the screen and communicating
with
phones.

This evening I decided to do it on my own, so I soldered a piece of cat5
into a scart plug, and connected the other end of the cat5 into one of the
Kenwood TFT screens as mentioned previously on the group. So I had the
screen right beside me while I was moving the dish.

It still took me a fair while as I had no compass, and the sun wasn't
visible at that time of the day. But once I found Astra, fine tuning to
get
that level of signal was a piece of cake.

Now to go and stick on my quad LNB and run 4 cables thru the wall to N0 :)

Cheers, Des.